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The spirit of having fun for a good cause was in the stormy spring air

at The Seize Life Charity Fashion Show, held on Friday, May 14, 2010

at Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda.

A large, multigenerational turnout watched students parade along a

runway -- to a synthbeat backdrop -- in all kinds of fashionable

clothes, including T-shirts with messages that Stone and Holt would love.

The evening was organized by the WJ Fashion Club.  All in all, the

event raised nearly $6000 for The Stone and Holt Weeks Foundation,

enabling the Foundation to make a grant of $4500 to the Muscular

Dystrophy Association Camp in Chicago -- the same camp where Stone

volunteered as a high school student.  Another $1500 was donated to WJ

in memory of two teachers, Karl Savage and Carolyn Berger-Ott, and a

student, Celine Silver who all left our school community this year.

During the evening, the Foundation made an additional gift of $3000 to

the MDA Camp.  A majority of the MDA donations will be used to sponsor

deserving campers and the portion of the money will underwrite a Giant

Cupcake Day for the camp, this year and next.  A special thank you to former

camp counselor Kate Sigel in Chicago who will be baking the 20 huge

cupcakes later this month.

Also a special thank you to Christine Clemons of the Washington area MDA

who graciously agreed to receive a giant copy of the donation check on

behalf of the MDA.  She made a moving, meaningful speech about how

important volunteers -- like Stone -- are to the young campers with

muscular dystrophy, and how important a summer camp is to these kids.

Here are some of the remarks we made that night:

LINTON:  Thank you, Caitlin, Jacqui, Emma, Celia, Daryl, Maddy, Gabby,

-- Caroline, and  Walter Johnson for your continuing and creative

support for The Stone and Holt Weeks Foundation.  We also want

to thank Teresa Hedrick-Ervin and FedEx Office.

I am Linton Weeks, this is my wife Jan. As many of you know,

in the summer of 2009 we lost our two amazing sons in a random and senseless highway crash.  In our sorrow, we founded The Stone and Holt

Weeks Foundation to honor the lives and the spirits of Stone and Holt.

JAN:  Profound loneliness is one of the afflictions of profound grief -- the inner turmoil of losing loved ones , their futures, and our futures together.  At the same time -- the Walter Johnson community has meant so much to us in various ways -- over these almost 10 months -- by supporting us, love for Holt and Stone, and our family’s Foundation in many sensitive ways.

For that we are forever grateful.

Stone and Holt were multitaskers. They found so many ways to help others, and they made everything they did so much fun.  And they found original,

creative ways to engage their friends -- and others -- to do the same. Tonight's fashion show is a meaningful example of this. A good time for a good cause.

LINTON:  Your support of our Foundation enables us to find new and

innovative ways to propel the spirits of Stone and Holt into the

future, to make the world a better place in ways they would

have were they still in this world.

We want to quickly mention a few upcoming events where you can have

fun and help others... A benefit concert at U Street Music Hall on

August 1 featuring one of Stone's and Holt's favorite

singers/songwriers, Greta of The Hush Sound and now of Gold Motel. A

vampire blood drive on October 31 where you can donate blood -- in

costume -- to Inova Blood Services. And on December 22, the Second

Annual We Kare-eoke Washington at Union Jacks in Bethesda.

You can find other news and upcoming events on the website,

www.stoneandholtweeksfoundation.org.

Tomorrow afternoon the University of Delaware will be unveiling a

memorial bench for Stone at 3 p.m. And here at Walter Johnson High

School, on June 4, you are invited to a ceremony at the tennis courts

at 6 p.m. for the dedication of a memorial boulder for Holt and

benches for Holt and Stone. We are so very grateful to Dr. Garran and

the Walter Johnson Community for such love.

In the end, love is all there is.

We love you.